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It’s a Tough Life for a Space Toaster in Mars Machines

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It’s a Tough Life for a Space Toaster in Mars Machines

Toasters on Mars!

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Published on February 21, 2024

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image from the Mars Machines trailer featuring a purple computer screen that reads, "Ready. This Banana has been out of order for quite a while now."

Award-winning author Lavie Tidhar has a new project, and it’s not a book. Mars Machines is a seven-part animated series created by Tidhar (who wrote it) and Nir Yaniv (who animated and scored it). It stars an endearing pair: a cranky toaster and his persnickety coffee pot friend. As the synopsis explains:

A grumpy toaster and a fastidious coffeepot uneasily cohabit in a kitchen on Mars. Their owner is gone, out on a case. The toaster used to be a spaceship, the coffeepot a burglar working for the Robo-Pope. Beyond the window ice-meteorites fall, and the enigmatic Dr Novum haunts their dreams, trying to get into their hidden shelter – and their minds. When a new answering machine turns out to be Bianca, a secret agent from Earth long on the trail of the inhuman Novum, their worlds collide.

Mars Machines was created “at the height of the Covid-19 epidemic,” a press release says. It stars Russell Wilcox as Buddy, Digger Mesch as Toaster, and Anne Wittman as Bianca. Tidhar, Yaniv, and these three actors (along with a larger cast) also created the short film Loontown, released last fall. Co-creator Tidhar is an award-winning author whose work includes Osama (winner of the World Fantasy Award), Central Station, and The Circumference of the World.

The trailer is below; the first episode is available now on YouTube and at the series’ website. icon-paragraph-end

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Molly Templeton

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Molly Templeton has been a bookseller, an alt-weekly editor, and assistant managing editor of Tor.com, among other things. She now lives and writes in Oregon, and spends as much time as possible in the woods.
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